How beneficial has the internet been to you, really? For me, the internet is only a positive right now because I am using it to learn to code, and once I know how to code and make stuff I can presumably exchange that skill for money. …

Entertainment is no good. It’s far too absorbing these days to be considered manageable. But it’s not so easy to dismiss entertainment and move on with your life in productive ways. I recently discovered some things about entertainment in my own life that has helped me overcome it. Before these…

Doomscrolling, which is defined as scrolling through negative news and media, particularly late at night, is an awful thing. …

Yesterday I wrote a post about losing 6pounds in one day. Today is the follow-up, where I lost two additional pounds for a total of 8 pounds. Much of the weight loss, perhaps most, is water weight. I had this idea of “cutting weight” like a fighter to fit into…

Is six pounds that big of a deal? For me, it is, and I’ll explain why. I have been recently going through difficulty with my weight. A crisis came up in my life and I started to overeat both junk food and candy. I also started working a less physical…

He was right, you know. You know he’s right. All you have to do is It. Just do it. Do it already! I’ve read a ton of self-help in the past decade. I always thought it would help, but it didn’t. When I read the famous How to Win Friends…

Hi kids, it’s me, a middle-aged man who still thinks about high school from time to time. High school will be a period of your life that you will be forced to go back to in your mind, for good memories, bad, but you may end up mostly wishing you…

The other day I had a self-realization that I needed to destroy myself. A version of myself, anyway. A mote of my mind that insists on continuing to exist. This copy of myself isn’t real, he’s a fake, a fraud, a doppelganger who thinks he’s the real me, the one…

Loose change can be found everywhere, and like a scrapper who trolls for junk on the side of the road, you can comb stores, walkways, parks, old furniture and purses, and anywhere else to make additional income with little more than walking around, which hey! That’s both healthy and a…